Please Note: Let the reader understand, that there is a good purpose for
providing the following list of quotes about the Anabaptists and those who are now called
Baptists. It is not the purpose of this compilation to offend Anabaptists, or to simply
communicate to any group of people that they are either unintelligent, or wicked, although
the individual quotes themselves may (warrantably or unwarrantably) express such an
opinion. Indeed, we are not unaware of the fact, that many baptists excel many professing
Presbyterians in practical godliness (to the shame of those Presbyterians,) and even
certain sects of Anabaptists retain usages amongst themselves which demonstrate more
dutifulness in fleeing from and forsaking the world and its vanities, than may be found in
many of the most theologically sound Reformed Christians. What then is the purpose of this
compilation?

The purpose of the following compilation is to demonstrate that the licentious
practice of modern "conservative Presbyterians" who engage in unlawful
associations with baptists, anabaptists, and others yet worse, is completely antithetical
to the wisdom and practice of true Presbyterians and all of the Reformers, who regarded
the Anabaptists as sectarian heretics, which cause divisions and offences contrary to
the doctrine which ye have learned. The Apostle Paul instructs Christians to avoid
them, for they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by
good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. Contrary thereto,
sectarian denominations and their adherents, enter into alliances, associations, and
leagues with Anabaptists, while at the same time pretending that it is their duty to exist
as separate "denominations" in the same one body of Christ. They share pulpits,
as though they would set wolves over their own flocks to assist them. They
"evangelize" jointly, as though they had no message to preach for the salvation
of souls, distinct from that of those who poison souls and divide the body of Christ. They
allow such heretics to become members of their churches without disciplining them for
refusing to bring their children to be baptized, as though they would usurp Christ's
authority and change his laws and ordiances to please those whose blinded consciences
forbid them to obey Jesus Christ. They say that the doctrine of Infant Baptism is a
difficult doctrine of small importance and not sufficient to warrant division among
Christians, as though they regarded all of the Reformers as doctrinal bigots, having less
Charity and Wisdom than themselves, who might have better served the Church in their day
by tearing down the Defensive Walls of Zion, and casting out the Keys of the Kingdom of
Heaven. And they do many other things hereby, which make them partakers of all of the
guilt of the Anabaptists themselves, with the added aggravation that they do it all
contrary to light, the faithful testimony of their fathers, and their own profession,
whereas the Anabaptists incur their guilt through much ignorance and confusion.

The above purpose being understood, we refer the reader to the following quotes:

Ulrich Zwingli

And since I have come to speak of the Catabaptists, I should like, O King, to sketch
for you in a few words the doctrines of that sect. They are mostly a class of rabble,
homeless from the want of means, who make it their business to win old women by pompous
discourses upon divine things to extract from them the wherewithal to support themselves,
or to gather in considerable alms. In general, they make pretense of the same holiness of
which Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons writes in connection with the Valentinians, and
Nazianzenus [Gregory Nazianzus] in connection with the Eunomians. Then, in reliance upon
this, they teach that a Christian cannot be a magistrate; that it is not lawful for a
Christian to put even a guilty man to death even by process of law; that we must not go to
war even if tyrants or godless persons and robbers resort to force and plunder, slay, and
destroy every day; that an oath must not be taken; that a Christian should not exact
duties or taxes; that all things should be held in common; that the souls sleep with the
bodies; that a man can have several wives "in the spirit" (having, however,
carnal intercourse with them); that tithes and revenues should not be paid, and hundreds
of other things. Nay, they daily scatter new errors like tares amid the righteous seed of
God.... They have left us, because they were not of us.

The Latin Works of Ulrich Zwingli. vol. 2, pp. 272,273.

Martin Luther

Since then these baptizers are altogether unsure of themselves, and reveal
that they are lying, and thereby deny and blaspheme the ordinance of God through their
deceitful uncertainty, making the last first, basing the Word and ordinance of God on
human work and faith, urging baptism when they should be urging faith, every devout
Christian, convinced that they are misleading, uncertain, and perverted spirits, should
avoid them at the peril of his soul's salvation. May Christ, our Lord, grant this and help
us. Amen.

Luther's Works, American Edition. vol. 40, p. 261.

John Calvin

And in our own day the Anabaptists, while they disturb the Church by their ravings, and
slander the Gospel, boast that they are carrying the banners of
Christ, when they are justly condemned. But Christ pronounces
those only to be happy who are employed in defending a
righteous cause.

Harmony of the Evangelists. vol. 1. pp. 267,268.

Nay, I even confess that the sacraments are vitiated and perverted when it is not
regarded as their only aim to make us look to Christ for every thing requisite to our
salvation, and whenever they are employed for any other purpose than that of fixing our
faith wholly in him. Moreover, since the promise of adoption reaches even to the posterity
of believers, I acknowledge that the infants of believers ought to be received into the
Church by baptism; and in this matter I detest the ravings of the Anabaptists.

Selected Works of Calvin. vol.3. Brief Form of a Confession of
Faith.

I wish, therefore, to warn such beforehand not to take anything said as an affront to
themselves, but to understand that, whenever I use some freedom of speech, I am referring
to the nefarious herd of Anabaptists, from whose fountain this noxious stream did, as I
observed, first flow, and against whom nothing I have said equals their deserts....

I again desire all my readers, if I shall have any, to remember that the Catabaptists
(whom, as embodying all kinds of abominations, it is sufficient to have named) are the
authors of this famous dogma [of soul sleep]. Well may we suspect anything that proceeds
from such a forge  a forge which has already fabricated, and is daily fabricating,
so many monsters.

Psychopannychia

Zacharius Ursinus

Wherefore, the Anabaptists, denying Baptism to infants born in the Church,
not only spoil them of their right; but also obscure the grace of God,
who wills that the seed of the faithful should from their birthday, yea, and from their
mother's womb, be reckoned for members of the Church: yea further, they derogate
manifestly from the grace offered in the new covenant, and scantle it [narrow it
down] less than the grace of the old covenant, seeing they deny that Baptism is now
extended unto those infants, to whom circumcision was extended: They weaken the
comfort of the Church and faithful Parents: they cancel the solemn bond, whereby God will
have the seed of his people from their first infancy bound unto him, and discerned
and severed from the rest of this world: they impair and make faint, in Parents and
children, the study of thankfulness, and keeping their bond: they impudently contradict
the Apostles, affirming that they cannot be forbidden water, who are endowed with the
holy Ghost: they saucily restrain and keep back the infants from Christ, who biddeth
them to be brought unto him. Lastly, they profanely detract from Christ's general
precept of baptising all. All which absurdities manifestly prove, that the
impugnation of infants' Baptism, whereon they are consequent, is no light errour, but an
impious, profane heresy, contrary to God's word and the comfort of the Church. Wherefore
this, and the like follies of the Anabaptists' sect, is with the more circumspection and
wariness to be avoided, which doubtless have been inspired by the devil, and is an
execrable monster, composed and made of divers heresies and blasphemies.

Anabaptists: So called from re-baptizing, had for their author
one Nicholas Storck, who pretended familiarity with God, by an angel promising him a
kingdom, if he would reform the church, and destroy the princes that would hinder him.